Sentences with phrase «poor immigrants in»

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Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions was simply the right thing to do.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

Okay, maybe Failing POTUS will pull a Putin and finger some immigrant «bad hombre» who washes dishes in the White House as the source and prosecute the poor soul.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

But gaps in the justice and compassion of a society require government intervention to secure the common good, which is not common until it includes the poor, the immigrant, the sick, the disabled, the unborn.

In reality, the marchers were celebrating the right and duty of the native French to insult the religion of poor immigrants.

In this last connection, and again with an eye toward immigrants and the poor, the GOP would be wise to strengthen its reputation as the party of community and order.

As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the community.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

What if we modeled the marriages, the families, care for the poor, and the treatment of the immigrant and the oppressed in a manner that demonstrates the heart of God as early Christians did?

Our task now is to support the good in Mr. Trump's policies and to resist the bad — and thereby prove to our countrymen that the meaning of «pro-life» begins with the unborn child, but in embracing the poor, the elderly and the immigrant, it never ends there.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

Or his statements in Matthew 25 about what a Christian would do in regards to the poor, the immigrants, the sick and those in prison and how that would affect their behavior as a President.

«I hope that we can decrease and eliminate abortion, embrace the immigrant and orphans, end the death penalty in the U.S. and see poor people cared for,» Claiborne says.

Would they act like a Christian as Jesus stated or as a Capitalist and reject all of Jesus teaching regarding wealth and the treatment of the poor, the sick the disabled, immigrants and those in prison.

After all, she was a poor girl in an immigrant family with a great deal of financial and medical troubles, for all their pre-Raphaelite pretensions.

If the Puritans lashed Quakers and hung «witches,» the Southern gentlemen exploited, lashed, and hung recalcitrant negroes — as in a more subtle way the burgeoning commercial - industrial upper classes of the North exploited and abused the newly emergent industrial working classes of immigrants and poor whites, especially in the growing cities of the Northeast.

«Here a set of poor Irishmen [Newman's first congregation, in Alcester Street, Birmingham, was in large part made up of poor Irish immigrants], coming and going at harvest time, or a colony of them lodged in a miserable quarter of a vast metropolis.

Now this has to be beyond window - dressing of doing drive - by ministry «to» and «among» the urban poor, immigrants, and the rich, racially - ethnic diversity of the global church present in urban centers.

In other words, richer nations have a greater responsibility than do poorer nations in being open to immigrants.&raquIn other words, richer nations have a greater responsibility than do poorer nations in being open to immigrants.&raquin being open to immigrants.»

On this question, the bishops have a long - standing and settled conviction — not unrelated to the immigrant history of Catholicism in this country — that a generous immigration policy is good for poor people seeking opportunity, good for America, and good for the Catholic Church.

He wonders about the sharp, derogatory words in Dylan's mid-1960s song «I Pity the Poor Immigrant.»

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

As Christopher Caldwell outlines in a Weekly Standard essay («The Migrants of Calais,» March 7, 2016), the winners in the global economy share economic interests with immigrants from the poor world.

Leon said that, with God's blessing, we can see that all of us - «whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant American or Daughter of the American Revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor» - are made in God's image.

In the 1880s Walter Rauschenbusch was a Baptist pastor in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York City, where he served a poor, hurting, immigrant congregation and where he converted to the social gospeIn the 1880s Walter Rauschenbusch was a Baptist pastor in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York City, where he served a poor, hurting, immigrant congregation and where he converted to the social gospein the Hell's Kitchen district of New York City, where he served a poor, hurting, immigrant congregation and where he converted to the social gospel.

Basically the people left in England now are a mixture of immigrants and ancestors of Americans that were too dumb, poor, or intellectually evolved to get out of that shithole when they had the chance.

The son of poor Greek immigrants who settled in Chicago at the turn of the century, DeMet has become one of the most popular figures in financial and sports circles here.

I live in a poor and working class neighborhood with many new immigrants, and never run into this attitude.

Employing wet nurses, which had been a common practice among wealthier women, became less common as wet nursing, most often performed by poor women, immigrants, and women of color, became more stigmatized, and as safer breast milk alternatives, such as sterilized condensed milk, became available.25 Instead, during this «chemical period» in infant feeding, medical authorities took charge, partially by devising complicated «percentage» formulas only they could administer as breast milk replacements.26 As Rima Apple and others have amply shown, the result was the «medicalization of motherhood,» or «scientific motherhood.»

A day earlier, Cuomo addressed a group of union workers and said he was «raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica,» a neighborhood in Queens, New York.

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

A new version of the SAT has longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems, which some educators and college admissions officers to fear will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.

why is Klein talking tax cuts at a time when many poor need more services we need the rich to pay their fair share, esp since recent immigrants and minorities are suffering from an economy that is not working for them, $ 15 is a STEP in the right direction.

Guillermo Linares, a doctorate - holding fellow Dominican immigrant — he grew up dirt poor in the Dominican Republic and came to America at 15 — beat Mr. Espaillat in a battle for a redrawn, Latino - heavy council district.

The party was still seen as being for «the poor, benefit claimants, immigrants and minority groups», Mr Lewis said, in what will be seen as a plea for a more Blairite agenda.»

If you are choosing to be divisive in the progressive movement, what you are doing is you are throwing the immigrants under the bus, black people under the bus, communities of color under the bus, poor working class people under the bus.»

Menchaca, in an interview with Gay City News last month, emphasized that his work as a councilmember is focused on empowering a poor community with a large immigrant population, both Latino and Asian, that has long been neglected by the powers that be.

Still, faced with large numbers of immigrants from poorer countries, immigration officials in richer nations have increasingly been turning to X-rays as a «scientific» way to resolve age disputes.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

«We also know that it disproportionally affects poor and minority children, and children in immigrant families.»

Patient recruitment is an enormous problem in many medical studies, and researchers often end up paying for the participation of students, poor people, drug abusers, the homeless, illegal immigrants, and others who may not adequately represent the population in terms of health or lifestyle.

Undocumented immigrants tend to live in areas with poor quality housing, intermittent garbage pickup and impure water, creating havens for infections.

Democrats prodded Ross on whether Census officials are doing enough to contact groups traditionally undercounted — including the poor and homeless, minorities, those in rural areas, and immigrants — and complained that budget woes have already forced cancellation of the communications and community outreach component of next spring's dress rehearsal.

In the shadow of the attacks, the inscription at her base no longer seems to address immigrants but rather speaks directly to New Yorkers who now find themselves disenfranchised and suffocating with disease: «Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»

Meanwhile there are flashbacks of young Louis (C.J. Valleroy) as a poor Italian immigrant growing up in Torrance, Southern California, where he was a juvenile delinquent and faced bigoted taunts from the local kids.

An actor who virtually put a trademark on cantankerous behavior, Matthau was a staple of the American cinema for almost four decades.The son of poor Jewish - Russian immigrants, Matthau was born on October 1, 1920, in New York City and raised in a cold - water flat on the Lower East Side.

Beatriz at Dinner (Director: Miguel Arteta, Screenwriter: Mike White)-- Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner.

Well it may not be the best movie Disney ever made, but it is still a fantastic look into not only the world of cross country running, but what it's like to be a child of immigrant workers in one of the poorest towns in America.